TGIFr!day

Week of March 23, 2018 | Vol. 6, No. 12

Check da Scene

Grinds & Da Kines For Your Weekend

HE’S BAAAACK After a decade-long absence, Sashamon is making noise as a musician and community activist

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PRINCE KUHIO FESTIVAL Throughout the day, Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa Hawaiian entertainment, 5 p.m. torch-lighting ceremony and hula dancing. Free.

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PRINCE KUHIO FESTIVAL Noon, Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort & Spa, Poipu Tsunami Taiko drummers, more. Free.

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ashamon is ready to share his music with the world.

Again.

The Anahola resident, also known as Sasha Spiller-Reiff, took a break from the high-paced music life he was headed into nearly a decade ago with the release of his first album. With the worldwide popularity of his self-produced album, “Someday Maybe,” he continues to get more than 100,000 plays a week on Spotify.

“After I released my CD I had this music career that came out of nowhere, and I didn’t know how to be a band leader,” Sashamon said. “I needed to get my personal and family life together while still trying to write music.”

The self-taught musician

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Anahola musician Sashamon is planning to release new recordings later this year.

put music on the back burner to spend time with loved ones after his mom was diagnosed with terminal illness. Taking time to raise a family and encouraging his 3-year-old son to

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play music has given him inspiration to get back on track with his unique sound.

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at is more important,” said Sashamon, originally from Molokai. “I’m inspired by environmental issues. I like music that is political, socially conscious with a voice and thought-invoking message music.”

Residing on Kauai since 2000, he continues to be involved in local grassroots movements, including the environmental nonprofit, “Sustainable Coastlines Hawaii.”

“They do these beach cleanups and turn them into social parties,” Sashamon said. “Instead of going to a party and trashing the place and getting trashed yourself, you go over there and clean up the trash and you feel good. It’s in daytime, and it’s family friendly. I want to try to get more into that and feel really blessed to work with

them.”

Sasha has been supporting Sustainable Coastline’s efforts for several years. His next big upcoming show is scheduled for their Earth Day celebration on April 21 in Oahu for Hawaii’s largest shoreline cleanup effort.

“As an underground independent musician, how do you make ripples in the world?” Sashamon said.

“Songwriting is so much more difficult than being a cover band.”

The past year, Sashamon and his Necta Band have been getting back on the road, performing in California and Maui, as well as at the Kauai Summer Festival, the Art Walk in Kauai, the 17th annual Home Grown Music Festival in Princeville and the Nawiliwili cleanup with Sustainable Coastline.

“We like to do those community things,” Sashamon said.

He has been putting in lots of work to get back into the swing of things

by recording in Brazil and especially at his home studio, playing ukulele, guitar, bass, keyboard, vocals and drum sequencer. He has been involved in several new projects and plans to release his brand new track, called “What I Do,” in the next few weeks.

“I got a few new tunes I’m working on,” Sashamon said. “I want to be proud of them. I want my new recordings to sound as good as I can and to reflect 10 years of me maturing as a musician.”

Spreading that message of good vibes is something he wants to continue. His advice to young aspiring musicians is: “Be careful what you wish for, it’s hard work.”

“There’s so many opportunities out there,” he said.

“If you love music, study it.

Try to get good at it, learn as much as you can, come from an authentic place, study the greats, study what you love, try to break

His new album is scheduled to be released later this year and promises to get people dancing.

“It’s awesome making

it down, find teachers.”

“People are so talented out there,” he said. “Call me up when you become famous. I like open for you.”

people dance,” he added.

“Anytime you can help people be happy and enrich people’s lives in anyway, that’s a real blessing.”

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Donald’s back after the time off during the construction.

Their $1 deals on cheeseburgers, breakfast burritos, and McChicken sandwiches were missed.

But the items that got the most attention had nothing to do with the quality of food. It has nothing to do with furniture or design.

What seemed to matter to most were the kiosks. They offer the opportunity to order your food without speaking to a human. That’s the way of the world these days. And it is easier — if you can figure it out.

Some of the older folks seemed to shy away from the touch screens. They prefer the old-fashioned way of

hen the Lihue McDonald’s finally opened the doors following a monthlong renovation, people gave thumbs up to the new decor. More relaxing, more inviting, more space between tables and chairs.

Just seemed bigger, brighter, better. A more modern look, for use. A good place to sit and talk story. The cushioned seats are nice and there’s more separation between the dining area and the front counter. A good investment for owner, Darlene Chung (who was often there, chatting with guests), and her crew It was nice to have McSEE MCDONALD’S, PAGE 5

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Alexa Greathouse explains to Sara Hansmann how the new ordering system works Tuesday afternoon at the recently renovated McDonald’s restaurant in Lihue.

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ordering food in a fast-food restaurant and walking up to the counter, talking to a clerk, looking at the menu options and being handed a receipt by a human hand.

And they still can do that.

Customers are free to stand in the line, just like the old days, wait patiently for your turn while the parents in front of you debate with their 4-year-old if he wants a Happy Meal and what toy is inside these days and could he substitute for another toy.

Many, though, went for the kiosks. It takes just a minute to touch your way through the process. Give Darlene credit, she saw that some would be baffled, and had staff standing nearby waiting to help, offering step-by-step guidance.

Pay with a credit card and

the machine spits out your receipt. As easy as it gets.

I’m not sure if you get your food any faster ordering by kiosk or by human. The kiosk way does seem to take longer than when you could talk to a person. People expect their meals within minutes and for the most part, that still happens. The other day, during a busy lunch hour, it took about 15, which isn’t fast enough for most folks, especially if you’re a visitor in a hurry to get the North Shore and be trapped by another landslide or have the Hanalei Bridge close.

The best part about the kiosk may not be the convenience of it. It’s that it allows you to order what you like without feeling guilty.

In these days when we are told to eat healthy, locally grown, organic, vegetables, steer clear of sugar and fats, avoid the processed stuff and drink water, some of us feel like we’re committing

a crime when we order burgers and fries and a large Coke. That is not the stuff of Olympic champions.

But it is the stuff of people who want to eat now, love burgers and fries and don’t want to spend $9 for half a turkey sandwich at the health food store.

With the new kiosks, we can walk right in, tap the screen and we’re done. If we ordered to go, no one has a clue what’s in that brown bag. We can grab and go, kind of a guilty pleasure. It’s addictive in a way. They’ve made it easy for us — too easy — to order those delicious Big Macs and Quarter Pounders which have about a billion calories and God knows what else is in there, but man, they’re good.

These kiosks are the way of the future. We know this.

They make life easier. They give us what we want, and what we want is our food delivered to our table as

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Jordan Nakamura, a Kamehameha Schools student home for spring break, waits for his order to be called Tuesday afternoon at the recently renovated McDonald’s restaurant in Lihue.

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Try that with a touch screen kiosk. Then again, maybe it will answer.

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GET USED TO MAKING CHANGES FOR THE BETTER CYNTHIA & ED JUSTUS SPECIAL TO TGIFR!DAY

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ood habits are things we cherish.

Bad habits, as the saying goes, are hard to break… so we think! Regardless of their category,

we all have habits, no matter what!

Pulitzer-Prize winner Charles Duhigg present us readers with an interesting notion: If we are hardwired to develop habits, how can we utilize this inherent trait for our own personal advantage?

“The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business” entertainingly explains why habits exist, how they form and why, and most importantly how they can be changed. The

author Duhigg presents a fascinating and fresh understanding of human nature and its potential.

Imagine being able to achieve those personal or business goals simply by utilizing your mind’s natural ability to form habits!

“The Power of Habit” is more than just a self-help book; it also converges studies of social psychology, business methods, and social sciences, too! Just to get a better understanding of how our own minds

make our behavior patterns was extremely interesting! With this approach outlined by the author, we might have the opportunities to bring about habitual change for our businesses, our communities, and most especially our lives.

What makes this book especially interesting is how it goes about explaining the ideas in a series of narratives that span three parts — the Habits of Individuals, the Habits of Successful Organizations,

and the Habits of Societies.

With stories that span the lives of regular people, to the scientific studies, to the

board rooms of massive corporations, to those on the sidelines of the NFL, we are equally entertained and educated by Duhigg’s writing. Ultimately, Duhigg explains that essentially a habit is formed by a behavior which provides us a “reward”, be they good or bad!

Start a good habit and read this book!

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REVIEW: SODERBERG’S ‘UNSANE’ IS PULP SEEN THROUGH AN IPHONE

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teven Soderbergh, who briefly retired from Hollywood after lamenting

its timid small-mindedness, “Unsane,” a pulpy psychohas shot his second post-hia- logical thriller, is an exercise tus film entirely on an iPhone. in both genre and technology. It’s a B-movie iMovie.

Soderbergh (“Out of Sight,” ‘’The Knick”), who serves as his own cinematographer under the pseudonym “Peter Andrews,” is a restless, protean filmmaker prone to experimentation and live-wire immediacy in his movies. He likes to cut out the middle man, even if the middle man is a camera.

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When her married boss calls her into his office to, wink wink, suggest they travel together to a weekend conference, she immediately senses the danger and briskly returns to work.

Seeking the advice of a therapist, she speaks to someone at an anonymous behavioral centered named Highland Creek. The meeting goes well, Sawyer thinks, but as she’s departing she’s asked to wait in the lobby. Later, a curt attendee comes to lead her down a drab, darkened hall, ushers her into a room, locks the door, and asks Sawyer to empty her bag, hand over her phone and disrobe.

“Procedure,” she says.

A growing sense of night-

mare takes hold, but it’s not elevated by the usual shrieking score or stylish flourishes of a horror film. Sawyer eventually learns that her offhand acknowledgement of occasional suicidal thoughts has gotten her admitted for 24 hours, and that she’s unwittingly signed away her rights for that time. Her fury quickly leads to scrums that extend her stay and increase her dosages, dispensed in little paper cups. Her mother (Amy Irving) can do little to free her.

Through the unfiltered, plain lens of an iPhone, Sawyer’s predicament is frightfully ordinary. The hospital isn’t a shadowy gothic trap. It’s a realistic suburban bureaucracy.

“Unsane,” though, severely heightens things with a twist. Sawyer believes her

stalker (Joshua Leonard) has infiltrated the hospital and is working there as an orderly.

She has said she sees him everywhere. Is this a delusion?

Is Sawyer, in fact, unstable?

Or is this another case of a woman’s accusations against a sexual harasser being ignored and explained away?

Even Sawyer isn’t sure which it is, at times.

“Unsane” keeps those seesawing possibilities alive for a good while, but eventually settles definitively — disappointingly, because it saps the mystery — on one side. A movie predicated on realism teeters toward preposterousness. “Unsane” captures much of the pain, confusion and self-doubt that can follow sexual abuse — and the potentially dire consequences of not heeding a victim’s warnings.

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NAHOLA — The brown water from rain-filled potholes sloshed quietly in the background as a steady stream of people flowed through the tents set up at Anahola Beach Park for the Eighth annual Anahola Prince Kuhio Day celebration presented by Ka Hale Pono and the Anahola community.

Alroy Enos, a retired teacher and football coach with the Kapaa High School team, was honored for having characteristics closest to those exhibited by Prince Kuhio, who was born on March 26, 1871, at a site close to Poipu.

Community groups hosted food booths, and vendors filled one of the tents with a variety of crafts and educational exhibits among the lineup of entertainment, which included ho‘okupu performances from schools, including the Kanuikapono Public Charter School, Punana Leo o Kauai, and Ke Kula ‘O Samuel M. Kamakau, a visiting school from Kaneohe, Oahu, which made the class trip because the school sits on “the prince’s lands.”

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